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Best Expect Poems

Below are the all-time best Expect poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of expect poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member The Clouds
"HOLDING HIS HAND"

*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?

"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...

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Categories: expect, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member I Think of You - After the Fall - 5
I could have cried like a bride at a funeral
Bled out, dry. I could have but I was already
dehydrated...I

i think of you

I wish someone could...

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Categories: expect, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Resolutions
To do justly in a world of injustice,
to love mercy though wanting revenge, 
to walk humbly through forests of arrogance,
to speak softly and not to...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expect, new year,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Fable of the Night
O, my angel, how smitten are yearnings of lonely night!
Will lover’s fantasy enchant, dream of this dreary night?

Though alluring is its rhythm, are you aware...

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Categories: expect, romantic,
Form: Ghazal
Premium Member Liberty of Expression Is Here
Why I am here in Poetrysoup?

I like a seed carelessly thrown 
upon dirty solid black, brown rocks,
I strive, thrived to grow 
despite big rough blocks..

words......

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Categories: expect, poems, poetess, poetry, write,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Lonely Ruin
Etched in my soul
is the peace of a lonely ruin,
an old chapel on the skull
of a hill surrounded by pastureland
and wind-swept trees.
Below a lake stretches...

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Categories: expect, hope, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member There Is a Star With My Name On It
Come walk with me,
for the path cares not,
the age of your feet.

Look at the butterflies on petals,
their silence does not care,
the language you speak.

Listen to...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expect, discrimination, humanity, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: expect, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet
Anxiety
This is what it feels like to have your heart racing 
and not knowing when or if it will ever slow down.
Your fatigued body can...

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Categories: expect, anxiety, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Loving Son
They always said, “Please bother us no more”
when Tommy sang, and Mom would stick her head
inside his room. “We need to shut your door!”

And once...

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Categories: expect, sad,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Who Knows If Magic Exists
Who knows if magic exists,
if dreams come true
and whether miracles take place
(all of these things we thought we knew)

... buried in our haste
to dig childhood's...

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Categories: expect, appreciation, beauty, family, friendship,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member To Feel
I want to feel my whole world burst,
see scintillating stars dispersed
across a vast unsullied sky
the sapphire blue of my mind’s eye
when life was fresh and...

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Categories: expect, emotions,
Form: Rondeau
Premium Member We Are Nasty Women
We are Nasty Women

When we hear haughtiness, we name it
When we see bullying, we blame it

We are Nasty Women

We do not daintily defer
For selfish whims...

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Categories: expect, character, confidence, courage, strength,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Poetic Glory of This Day Potd
I do at dawn, reflect.
God made me, perfect.
             Thus,  my thoughts to...

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Categories: expect, appreciation, poets, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member One Good Thing
In the late 1970s, I was going home on a Friday evening,
and needed a little more fuel in my truck, 
enough to get back to...

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Categories: expect, life, memory, poverty, work,
Form: Prose

Book: Reflection on the Important Things